Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church

Minneapolis, United States

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Built in 1910 in Minneapolis's Lyndale neighborhood, the Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church is a Prairie School building designed by the architectural firm Purcell & Elmslie. Unusual for its time, the church eschews traditional ecclesiastical ornament—it has no bell tower and instead features the horizontal lines and clean geometry characteristic of the Prairie School movement, with a flat roof, broad eaves, and brick and stucco exterior. The interior centers on a cube-shaped auditorium lit by a wall of eastward-facing green-tinted windows, flanked by a narrower southern section with a deep balcony; decoration is spare, limited to geometric wood-strip patterning. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, the building was extensively restored beginning in 1988 when Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church acquired it and invested over $2 million in renovation work. It later became the Alhikma Islamic Center.